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Speaker 1: All right, guys, favorite segment special people that specialize in

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Speaker 1: really special things. And this morning we're going to mate

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Speaker 1: of yours, Clint helping out we do.

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Speaker 2: He is an av geek first and foremost. He is

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Speaker 2: a former nine News journalist now running all things media

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Speaker 2: and communications at Melbourne Airport. Say hello to Andrew Lund

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Speaker 2: Andrew Land.

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Speaker 3: Good morningning everybody.

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Speaker 4: Are you an aerosexual?

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Speaker 2: I am, yes, the most tragic aerosexual.

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Speaker 4: What's your favorite type of aircraft?

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Speaker 2: What you favorite plane?

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Speaker 5: Or? I do love an A three fifty. I don't

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Speaker 5: know if it's the sort of new long range air bus.

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Speaker 5: It's a very good looking aeroplane.

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Speaker 6: So if we were leaving Melbourne Airport and getting on

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Speaker 6: an A three fifty, what like what airlines are operating those?

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Speaker 4: And where would we be sort of heading?

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Speaker 3: So ways to Bangkok?

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Speaker 5: Yep, you could be going China Airlines to Type Hay,

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Speaker 5: you could be going Cape Pacific to Hong Kong.

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Speaker 3: Let's test him out.

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Speaker 1: What would the flight number be for a morning flight

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Speaker 1: on Top Airways to Bangkok.

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Speaker 3: Or TG something something there? You gog?

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Speaker 4: Is that their code?

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Speaker 3: That's their code?

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Speaker 1: Now, look, the reason we wanted to get you in

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Speaker 1: as an expert on airports is because, let's be honest,

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Speaker 1: they're about to get hit hard. School holidays start later

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Speaker 1: on this afternoon. What would be the busiest time of

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Speaker 1: the year for you guys.

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Speaker 5: Look, school holidays. January was the busiest month we've ever

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Speaker 5: had in the history of the airport, and July is

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Speaker 5: shaping up to be pretty busy as well. Expecting one

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Speaker 5: hundred and fifteen thousand people through the airport today.

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Speaker 4: Well, he's not going to the airport, so don't worry

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Speaker 4: about it.

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Speaker 6: You know, when they say it's a busy day, you've

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Speaker 6: got to get there two hours before your flight. Now,

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Speaker 6: I am arriving at security about forty minutes before my

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Speaker 6: flight tops.

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Speaker 4: That's how I operate.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, if that do you really need to be there

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Speaker 6: an hour and a half before your flight.

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Speaker 3: It depends.

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Speaker 5: If you're checking in baggage, if you're parking your car,

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Speaker 5: if you've got to do all those sorts of things,

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Speaker 5: then giving yourself a bit of air extra time is advisable.

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Speaker 5: But if you're just coming through with handbaggage, you've got

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Speaker 5: nothing in your carry on that's going to cause issues.

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Speaker 5: You checked in, you know where your gate is, You're

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Speaker 5: probably okay with forty minutes.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, rumdy, Why why oh, why are all the security

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Speaker 6: gates not always open because you have these huge queues

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Speaker 6: and then you've got half of the security gates open

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Speaker 6: and the others are just sitting there.

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Speaker 4: You spent all this money and there's no one there.

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Speaker 3: It's a good point.

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Speaker 5: We try to manage the security cues in line with

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Speaker 5: what flights were expecting.

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Speaker 3: So say, if you're flying out of Terminal three or four.

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Speaker 5: First thing in the morning, we'll have all the security

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Speaker 5: lanes open at five am, right because we know that

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Speaker 5: everybody's trying to get through to the gates. And then

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Speaker 5: we might shift some of the staff over to international

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Speaker 1: Or if there's like an A three eighty, which is

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Speaker 1: you know, almost a thousand people on the plane exactly.

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Speaker 5: So we try to use the resources as efficiently as

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Speaker 5: we can. But you know, sometimes there are cues, and

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Speaker 5: particularly on days like today when there's a lot of

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Speaker 4: Get them all working, Lundon, open them all up.

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Speaker 2: I was watching George cleaning up in the air, very realistic,

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Speaker 1: Was describing the sort of person that he likes to

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Speaker 1: line up behind at the security line. Would you recommend

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Speaker 1: staying away from families? Do they hold up the line?

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Speaker 2: No, No, it's the oldies, That's what I hear, and

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Speaker 3: I look.

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Speaker 5: You know, as as a father of two young children,

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Speaker 5: So you know, just be patient with everybody, would be Blundy.

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Speaker 2: What has surprised you about the airport? You're a couple

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Speaker 2: of years into this new job, because you are a

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Speaker 2: you know, an aviation enthusiast. As I say, is there

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Speaker 2: something that you know the way something works, the way

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Speaker 2: you know planes are organized. Is there something that that

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Speaker 5: I think it's just the number of specialized roles there

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Speaker 5: are that are required to get things moving and get

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Speaker 5: they're really specialized in baggage. Like there's people whose specialty

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Speaker 5: is the conveyor belts that move your baggage, and you

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Speaker 5: know those take too long too.

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Speaker 7: Well.

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Speaker 1: I was watching because there's the new Airport Show, which

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Speaker 1: Tullermarine and they're replacing one of the globes in the

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Speaker 1: taxiway and one of the airports. Sparky's got called out

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Speaker 1: taxiway and the globe's worth like hundreds of dollars. They're massive,

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Speaker 1: and I didn't even think. I was like, of course,

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Speaker 1: you'd have to have electricians just on site ready to

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Speaker 5: And there's thousands and thousands of those lights that need replacing. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: it's it's incredible that the airport actually takes up more

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Speaker 5: land than the Melbourne CBD. It's a huge precinct. So

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Speaker 5: I imagine trying to look after that and keep all

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Speaker 5: of that running. It's it's a big gig.

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Speaker 4: Also, is there a jail under the prison under the airport?

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Speaker 3: Not the prison go again, most just do the pickup.

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Speaker 6: Is there a jail under the airport, because I've heard

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Speaker 6: some airports have them passengers.

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Speaker 5: There's not a jail under the airport, but the Australian

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Speaker 5: Federal Police do have their own little builder holding cell

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Speaker 5: and if and if you misbehave the Federal Police will

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Speaker 5: be talking to you very severely.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, your best behind.

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Speaker 4: The people that have got on the bin tangs on

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty good at watching those border security shows, going

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Speaker 1: yeah they got something strapped to their body.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, well you can pick them a bit like RBT.

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Speaker 2: Yes there.

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Speaker 1: Can you explain this clip I saw on the telly

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Speaker 1: the other day when you guys had a code brown

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Speaker 7: Happens We've had a spill of some effluent waste on

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Speaker 2: Allegedly there was an issue with the hose.

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Speaker 7: So approximately the airside Safety and told us around about

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Speaker 7: twenty leaders have spilled onto the tarmac, which requires before

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Speaker 7: they can be open for you. So we've organized our

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Speaker 3: Up the waist. It happens.

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Speaker 5: So things you don't think about about the airport, like

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Speaker 5: obviously it's all got to come off the plane. Yeah,

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Speaker 5: so it gets sucked into trucks and then it gets

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Speaker 5: taken to a place called the honeypot, and like a

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Speaker 5: it gets all the shit, it gets blocked, and when

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Speaker 5: come out with a like a wooden stick, no unblocked.

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Speaker 5: So if ever you think you're having a bad day

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Speaker 5: at work, just know that, Wow, oh that is horrific.

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Speaker 2: Is what does it really smell like? When they open

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Speaker 5: Flight, you can tell, yeah, after fourteen hours. There's a

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Speaker 1: Obviously, you guys have fire stations on site. I saw

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Speaker 1: on the news you guys were doing sort of some

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Speaker 1: practice drills the other week.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, every three years we've got to do a big

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Speaker 5: exercise just to prepare for a major aircraft incident, just

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Speaker 5: we need help from the emergency services around the city

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Speaker 5: as well, and the airport being such a different environment

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Speaker 5: toever else, we need to make sure that they know

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Speaker 5: what they're doing where they're going how it all works.

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Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys caught it, but they

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Speaker 1: use like actors from drama schools and stuff and wrap

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Speaker 1: them up with like fakers, yeah, fake blood and bandages,

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Speaker 1: and then they just roam around will probably be out there, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: and then the fieries have to yeah, rehearse it. Okay

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Speaker 1: for travelers, Sorry for travelers. What's the quietest time to travel?

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Speaker 1: When should we be booking our flights?

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Speaker 3: Not school holidays? Yeah, of course. Yeah.

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Speaker 5: If you can avoid the school holidays, then you'll be

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Speaker 5: doing well. Tuesdays and Wednesdays typically quieter, or Saturday afternoon

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Speaker 5: if you find domestically good time to go right Fridays, Sundays,

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Speaker 5: Mondays avoid Yeah, if you can.

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Speaker 4: Lundy, let's treat this as a suggestions box.

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Speaker 6: Oh, can you make it illegal for people to stand

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Speaker 6: so close to the belt when the bags come out?

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Speaker 6: It doesn't make the base come any faster if you

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Speaker 6: stand right up to the thing. Why doesn't everyone stand

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Speaker 6: further back? We need to make it clear us and

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Speaker 2: It should get electric shocks?

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Speaker 3: Los on with you?

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Speaker 5: Do you want to come and beforeards here at the airport,

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Speaker 5: and you can enforce some etiquet.

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Speaker 1: And I can see her in the bib, the colored

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Speaker 6: It's just so annoying because you've got so many people

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Speaker 6: out there tapping on the windows, going do another lap.

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Speaker 6: Your person's not here to be picked up yet. Let's

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Speaker 6: lay off that and them inside, getting people stepping back

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Speaker 6: from the belts with the bags.

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Speaker 2: Lundy, there was a wild rumor doing the rounds many

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Speaker 2: years ago, so treated as a rumor or fact. When

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Speaker 2: they built the airport, did they build a train station underneath,

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Speaker 2: like a what could be used as an underground station.

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Speaker 3: They did not. They put it on the plans.

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Speaker 5: So you look back at the plants from nineteen sixties

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Speaker 5: and there's an underground train station marked in the forecourt.

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Speaker 5: There is no underground train station. There are some tunnels though,

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Speaker 5: that we use for shifting the baggage trolleys around the place.

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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, And from a certain angle, if you squint,

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Speaker 5: you could think that it was maybe a really tiny

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Speaker 5: little train station. It looks a little bit like a

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Speaker 5: New York style, yeah, grotty train station. But that's for

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Speaker 5: the bags. But well, it's for the trolleys. Yeah, you're

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Speaker 5: not fitting a train in the a rumor. It's a rumor.

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Speaker 5: I'm afraid we are working on the train. We want

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Speaker 5: the train. I want the train, or catch the smore

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Speaker 5: of bus every day?

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Speaker 2: Yeah about that, Lundy to get to work, catch us

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Speaker 2: every day.

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Speaker 3: You get a great view from the top deck.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but it must be so disappointing you you're the

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Speaker 1: only one without luggage. You're not flying anywhere, You're just

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Speaker 1: going to work.

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Speaker 5: It takes a bit of getting used to getting off

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Speaker 2: Warren was once upon a time as an ambassador for the.

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Speaker 4: Sky Yeah, this is what I stood on the ads.

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Speaker 4: Do you want to have more money for ice creams

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Speaker 1: So her voice is ridden the bus at least, hey,

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Speaker 1: you can pay just to go into as visitor passes,

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Speaker 3: The international terminal. Is a couple of pay per use

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Speaker 5: Some of them have time limits though, so you're probably

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Speaker 5: You know, we don't have those options in the domestic channel.

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Speaker 5: Hopefully you're not copying a six hour delay. But there

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Speaker 5: You can get a little facial and.

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Speaker 6: I get it.

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Speaker 4: I get a cab, or I get an over to

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Speaker 4: straight to the door of the ballet.

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Speaker 2: And to stand away.

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Speaker 4: Is not time to get his facial.

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Speaker 1: Can you confirm a rumor that our very own Clint.

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Speaker 1: Every week when he heads off to Sydney for the

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Speaker 3: He just pulls up in his sports car the valet

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Speaker 2: Is that true?

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Speaker 3: That's what they ballet. They look after you very well

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Speaker 2: Can I tell you a sensation.

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Speaker 3: Running out like it's a pit crew at the Formula one?

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Speaker 2: Myself and Eddie MacGuire. Apparently Eddie McGuire is a high

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Speaker 3: Jesus listen to the service.

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Speaker 1: Meanwhile I'm doing park and ride. Eight new food courts

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Speaker 6: To Us and Lundy's on the skybus Mate.

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Speaker 5: Yes, new food court in Quotas. Hopefully people have had

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Speaker 5: a chance to have a look at that. There's some

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Speaker 5: It was looking a little bit tight. I don't remember

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Speaker 5: It's some really good good food options there as well,

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Speaker 4: Mot as well. If I'm putting that.

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Speaker 2: Box.

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Speaker 3: This is not a suggestion box.

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Speaker 2: It's an expert segment.

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Speaker 3: It is not how we remodeled.

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Speaker 4: There's always a big cue at rolled. They need more

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Speaker 3: There's always a big cut roll.

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Speaker 5: There's always a cue for coffees at five am in

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Speaker 5: Terminal three and four. We're onto it, but there's only

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Speaker 1: I love the Terminal four food court solid.

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Speaker 4: Is that the one with rolled?

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Speaker 3: Yes, we're about to get a Schnitzer.

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Speaker 1: Because I thought it was a dark day when Muffin

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Speaker 3: But we're getting the schnitz.

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Speaker 2: The issue with Terminal four is it the walk from

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Speaker 2: Terminal four food court to Virgin is a little bit extensive,

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Speaker 2: That's all I'd say.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we need to the stairs to get through.

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Speaker 3: It looks like there can at the airport. That's true.

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Speaker 3: But but if you've had your schnitz chips or whatever,

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Speaker 6: Fielded up ready to go. What's happening with the old

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Speaker 3: So that's gone, that's that's turned into Terminal four.

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Speaker 4: That is Terminal four now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's stood.

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Speaker 5: If you look at Terminal four down the Rex end,

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Speaker 5: It was a special terminal, the old Tiger Terminal. I

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Speaker 5: don't know if you remember that, the old change spens and

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Speaker 5: the open air baggage. What we've got there now is

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Speaker 5: to do is actually the International terminal, because if anybody's

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Speaker 3: So we're doing a lot.

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Speaker 4: Got your trolley with all your stuff and you're in

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Speaker 5: Smart gates kids can use now they can, yes, yes,

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Speaker 5: so you know the smart gates. We're trying to work

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Speaker 5: those as well, because during peak hours we just don't

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Speaker 3: But really we need more space.

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Speaker 5: So you would have seen a lot of construction happening

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Speaker 5: you can't miss it. There's a whole new roads project

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Speaker 5: being built, and that will create a new pick up

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Speaker 5: and drop off area which should open later next year yep.

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Speaker 5: And that will then allow us to push the International

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Speaker 5: end of next year, right, and that allows us to

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Speaker 1: So what will you do with those guys that walk

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Speaker 1: around in high viz going go round, move around on,

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Speaker 1: move on, can't park here?

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Speaker 3: They'll move?

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Speaker 5: So there'll be a new free pickup and drop off

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Speaker 5: area in the current Terminal one two three car parks.

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Speaker 3: A level three of that car park will become a

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Speaker 5: Lot more spaces, so hopefully a lot lesser than knocking

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Speaker 5: change is coming next year. But it's also we can

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Speaker 2: Finally before we let you go.

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Speaker 1: A lot of people, Like we said, we'll be heading

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Speaker 1: off to the airport tomorrow, startup school holidays. Any quick tips.

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Speaker 5: Really the big thing is parking. It's very very busy,

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Speaker 5: So if you are planning to park at the airport,

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Speaker 5: find car park. We don't want anyone missing a flight

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Speaker 3: It's like the shopping centers at Christmas. It's busy.

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Speaker 5: So just back to in an extra half an hour

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Speaker 5: for car park. You know, if you take some pressure off,

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Speaker 5: you takes pressure off the system. Everybody wants to get

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Speaker 1: So Well said it would be nice to the staff

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Speaker 1: because they just want to get you out of there.

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Speaker 2: You got a favorite airline, It was like asking your

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Speaker 3: We love all our airlines, but.

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Speaker 2: You as a when you're a passenger, is there a

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Speaker 1: All the airlines are hanging off a cliff. You can

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Speaker 1: only save one.

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Speaker 5: Look the last airline I flew was in New Zealand

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Speaker 5: and they were fantastic. Big shout out to Megan who

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Speaker 5: was chief cabin crew on that plot. She was incredible.

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Speaker 3: Someone got free printels, didn't they not even she was

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Speaker 3: just brilliant.

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Speaker 1: So Andrew lund is our airport expert joining us on

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Speaker 1: the air this morning.

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Speaker 3: Thanks coming in London, my pleasure, Guys

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Speaker 6: Lundy, Jason Lauren wake up feeling good following them on

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Speaker 6: the socials